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When considering an outpatient Wound Center at your hospital, some critical issues to consider are:
- How much revenue will the wound center generate?
- How much cost will I incur?
- What is my liability exposure?
- How much will managing a wound center distract from mission critical endeavors?
WALKS℠ administers all aspects of the wound center, allowing our partner hospitals to focus on what they feel is most important to their facility. WALKS℠ Wound Centers alleviates the wound center management burden by providing:
- Expert wound clinic management
- Physician services
- Physician recruitment
- Billing expertise and assistance
- A multi-disciplinary methodology
- Comprehensive data management
- Marketing plan (monthly progress letters, on-site referring physician/PCP office visits, print advertisement, community education)
- Clinic forms (electronic and hard copy)
- Clinic protocols
- Assistance with all aspects of clinic set up
- Physician/Staff Training
- Participation in all Medicare/Medicaid audits
WALKS℠ Wound Centers can help your hospital:
- Reduce out migration by providing a critical specialty service to patients in your local area
- Increase outpatient revenue
- Increase ancillary revenue (diagnostics, lab services, vascular surgery, general surgery, orthopedics)
- Reduce LOS in key patient populations
The hospital investment includes:
- Clinic Space, either on campus or off campus
- Clinic supplies and equipment
- Ancillary clinic staff (Medical assistants, scheduling staff)
- Monthly management fee
For more information call Frank W Zappa, DPM at 312-243-3769 or Jason Zappa at 720-413-0339.